Work in Progress

Thank you Gunnar, it will take a while to finish but no great rush is needed.

The instructions for the double wall is there within the pages of Robinson the poor widows son. He toiled under the gaze of the all seeing eye, filling up the space between them with rock chippings. The Author Daniel Defoe,being a Free Mason placed the signs there, along with the instruction for building a double sided palisade. My little fences are to be double sided too, and infilled with stone too. BB

It could well be one of those Gunnar, or just a fancy light shade. Thank you for the banter.

"Or is it simply a tongue in cheek wind up?"

However silly me I forgot to place the plastic sheet over my jig before starting and so had to pull it all off and back upon my ball of string. The splendid thing is it is darn good practice at making balls of string. "Ya I like that."

So restarting on Plan A again I thought `lets just simply wait and see how it will all turn out. See you later. BB

The double walls are finished and every span of weaving knotted and glued into place. The rendering will be next ,along with work upon the roof.

This Beano Boy, series contained that awful episode that Gunnar, found quite horrible. "But I liked it."

Each part for me is a sort of pathway adventure, and really I never totally know how things will turn out. I just snap away with my camera the days events, and then write and post daily each stage as it comes. It might seem strange or even crazy filming a something that might end in failure, but that heightens the adventurous fun. ____ " and failures are often quite funny." I guess it is the way one views them,and I always explain mine putting the reason why? too.

There will be extra Barrels of fun upon this building project too and all who view will understand that comment when things start to roll out. BB

Ye Olde Book, in question. Yes I agree Gunnar,about the hair. I troll the Asterix pages on line, and fiddle a fudge out of a find in keeping with this cartoon type scratch-build. It sort of adds to the fun. The Spiders are easy to obtain on the high street and Mrs B,bought a load for me,knowing how much I love them. " O` my ! " They will be used as they are as simple props. BB

The work went well, and soon the stringing of the double walls were finished. I gave the string a coating of PVA Glue,and left it overnight. Later I was stuffing dry strips of kitchen paper down hard with a stick into the cavity. There was no need to use glue at this stage.

I tied string around the top sticks over the doorway,and pulled them in rather tight in order to make the entrance way sort of a bit square.

The paper pushed the walls out into a nice sturdy shape.

Glue was added to the last topping paper and left to go tacky!

The sticks were then trimmed off, and more splodgy thick glue was added on top and fine shingle was heaped onto that and pressed down by hand.The stone topping finished it off rather nicely. Later when the glue has dried out hard I will tip off any loose stones. Always handy to have fine shingle in ones stash!

I raided Mrs B`s kitchen for the paper. It was sort of a Special Ops Moment, while she was upon the first dog walk of the day. Who dares Wins, kinda rings a bell.

This has been another learning curb for me. The next one I make I will infill the cavity with paper at certain heights as I am stringing the skewers.

Now I need to figure out the doorway,and roof. So I`ll get back to you guys later . BB

I forgot to mention a certain something before. It is the fact every stick stuck into my simple homemade jig was buttered up with best butter. I only use the best products in my work. So ZIP! The outhouse should lift off like grease lightning. " well butter lightning anyway", mentioned the little button.

I have long earned a reputation of being rather unorthodox in my hobby escapades. So this has to be one of the coolest crazy-like ones ever. So enjoy my fun.

THE WORK GOES WELL

Hi guys, it was as I began to peg out the second little outhouse that I realised the last of my wooden skewers would be used up if I continued to weave around these sticks. I looked it over in my mind and then thought up a Plan B. Which was to use my last wooden skewers as lift off pins.So my jig now has wooden pins__________________ so into my stash I rummaged until I found plastic drinking straws. These would slip over each pin wonderfully well,and plan b,was to wind a weave pattern of repetition around the drinking straws. The aim is when all the work is completed and the resin glue set dry and hard,then all that would be required is a simple straight lift off ,as the straws would slid up the wooden pins as if they were greased up with butter. In theory it should work,but how will it actually work out in a hands on scratch build of such a chaos theory ?

Here is yet another scratch build for this open ended project. The Palisade!

Out of the stash box wooden dowels will need a darn good bashing before use."Mrs B, please do you happen to know where my small hammer is? " and more string please?" " Were would BB,be without his string?" " Stringless!"

Just to add a couple more points,on my construction pattern of play.I placed wire into the clay base to reinforce it,and PVA Glue was applied to the inside and front pathway onto the wet clay and fine gravel was heaped on and pressed down by hand. The loose stuff will fall away later when all is dried out,and I turn it over for a pat of the hand upon its side. I saw no point at all to wait for the base to set hard before applying this rock hard gravel floor level.

This is the very first time I used this clay powder above so the verdict is still out concerning it. However it did mix up quite well and can be sealed up in a plastic bag once that mixing has been done,and not go hard. Mine was mixed up 3 weeks ago before using it and was a pleasure to work with.

Wattle and Daub construction on You Tube sets out the principles one tries to assimilate.

I felt upon my scratch buildings that string was easier to use and is very strong and cheap as chips. Combined with wooden skewers and PVA Glue and paper,i was left with a good solid sound in this case Outhouse for the Gaul Village. So now it needs the Daub to finish this main job of construction.

As I have no experience in this type of build.By doing a couple of common sense samples I feel any size or shape of building could be attempted for anyone into this smaller side of the scratch-building hobby. Money saved buys the figures needed for any type of display. BB